"I was so excited, and I was so nervous, and I got up to this top-five question," Powell said. "I was the first one. I got up, and the question was a little bit confusing to me, and I just started speaking without really processing."

And from that, alas, came the viral phrase "create education better."

Judge Nene Leakes of "The Real Housewives of Atlanta," who'd asked the question about women continuing to make less than men despite being primary earners in 40% of families with children, had sympathy for 20-year-old Powell.

Floridians weather the heat and humidity of our brutal summers by fleeing to the state’s wealth of cool, clear, refreshing springs, which spill thousands of gallons of water out of the ground every minute.